Taillon - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Taillon is a provincial electoral district in Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec

National Assembly of Quebec

The National Assembly of Quebec is the legislative body of the Province of Quebec. The Lieutenant Governor and the National Assembly compose the Parliament of Quebec, which operates in a fashion similar to those of other British-style parliamentary systems.The National Assembly was formerly the...

. The district is located in Longueuil

Longueuil

Longueuil is a city in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of the Montérégie administrative region and sits on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River directly across from Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census totaled 229,330, making it the third largest city in...

(includes the northern portions of the city) and in the 1995 Quebec referendum

1995 Quebec referendum

The 1995 Quebec referendum was the second referendum to ask voters in the Canadian province of Quebec whether Quebec should secede from Canada and become an independent state, through the question:...

it voted 61% for Quebec to separate. The riding was created in 1965 from Verchères

Verchères (provincial electoral district)

Vercheres is a provincial electoral district in the province of Quebec, Canada. Located in the Montérégie region, it was created in 1829. From 1936 to 1944 Vercheres was part of the riding of Richelieu-Vercheres...

and Chambly

Chambly (provincial electoral district)

Chambly is a provincial electoral district in the province of Quebec, Canada. Situated in the Montérégie region south of Montreal, the riding was created in 1829...

.

It was named after former Quebec Premier Louis-Olivier Taillon

Louis-Olivier Taillon

Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon, PC was born in Terrebonne, Quebec. He twice served as the eighth Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec....

who was in power for four days in 1886 and from 1892 to 1896. http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/Membres/notices/t-u/TAILLO.htm

Members of the National Assembly

This riding has elected the following Members of the National Assembly

National Assembly of Quebec

Legislature	Years		Party
28th Quebec general election, 1966 The Quebec general election of 1966 was held on June 5, 1966, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The Union Nationale , led by Daniel Johnson, Sr, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Jean Lesage....	1966-1970	Guy Leduc	Liberal
29th Quebec general election, 1970 The Quebec general election of 1970 was held on April 29, 1970 to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The former Legislative Assembly had been renamed the "National Assembly" in 1968...	1970-1973
30th Quebec general election, 1973 The Quebec general election of 1973 was held on October 29, 1973 to elect members to National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Robert Bourassa, won re-election, defeating the Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, and the Union Nationale .The Liberals won a...	1973-1975
	1975-1976		Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
31st Quebec general election, 1976 The Quebec general election of 1976 was held on November 15, 1976 to elect members to National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. It was one of the most significant elections in Quebec history, rivalled only by the 1960 general election, and caused major repercussions in the rest of Canada...	1976-1981	René Lévesque René Lévesque René Lévesque was a reporter, a minister of the government of Quebec, , the founder of the Parti Québécois political party and the 23rd Premier of Quebec...	Parti Québécois Parti Québécois The Parti Québécois is a centre-left political party that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Quebec and secession from Canada. The Party traditionally has support from the labour movement. Unlike many other social-democratic parties, its ties with the labour movement are informal...
32nd Quebec general election, 1981 The Quebec general election of 1981 was held on April 13, 1981, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Claude Ryan.The PQ won re-election despite...	1981-1985
33rd Quebec general election, 1985 The Quebec general election of 1985 was held on December 2, 1985, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The Quebec Liberal Party, led by former premier Robert Bourassa, defeated the incumbent Parti Québécois, led by premier Pierre-Marc Johnson.This election...	1985-1989	Claude Filion	Parti Québécois Parti Québécois The Parti Québécois is a centre-left political party that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Quebec and secession from Canada. The Party traditionally has support from the labour movement. Unlike many other social-democratic parties, its ties with the labour movement are informal...
34th Quebec general election, 1989 The Quebec general election of 1989 was held on September 25, 1989, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada...	1989-1994	Pauline Marois Pauline Marois Pauline Marois is the current leader of the Parti Québécois in the province of Quebec, since June 27, 2007 and current Leader of the Official Opposition of the National Assembly of Quebec, representing the riding of Charlevoix...	Parti Québécois Parti Québécois The Parti Québécois is a centre-left political party that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Quebec and secession from Canada. The Party traditionally has support from the labour movement. Unlike many other social-democratic parties, its ties with the labour movement are informal...
35th Quebec general election, 1994 The Quebec general election of 1994 was held on September 12, 1994, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The Parti Québécois, led by Jacques Parizeau, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Daniel Johnson, Jr.....	1994-1998
36th Quebec general election, 1998 The Quebec general election of 1998 was held on November 30, 1998, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Parti Québécois, led by Lucien Bouchard, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Jean Charest.After the narrow defeat of...	1998-2003
37th Quebec general election, 2003 The Quebec general election of 2003 was held on April 14, 2003, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec . The Parti libéral du Québec , led by Jean Charest, defeated the incumbent Parti Québécois, led by Bernard Landry.-Unfolding:...	2003-2006
	2006-2007	Marie Malavoy Marie Malavoy Marie Malavoy is a Quebec politician and teacher. She is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Taillon in the Montérégie region and represents the Parti Québécois....	Parti Québécois Parti Québécois The Parti Québécois is a centre-left political party that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Quebec and secession from Canada. The Party traditionally has support from the labour movement. Unlike many other social-democratic parties, its ties with the labour movement are informal...
38th Quebec general election, 2007 The Quebec general election of 2007 was held in the Canadian province of Quebec on March 26, 2007 to elect members of the 38th National Assembly of Quebec. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Jean Charest managed to win a plurality of seats, but were reduced to a minority government, Quebec's first in...	2007-2008
39th	2008-

Election results

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|Parti Québécois

Parti Québécois

The Parti Québécois is a centre-left political party that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Quebec and secession from Canada. The Party traditionally has support from the labour movement. Unlike many other social-democratic parties, its ties with the labour movement are informal...

Richard Bélisle

Richard Bélisle was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 1997. His career has been in health and safety fields....

|align="right"|10,691
|align="right"|32.97
|align="right"|+9.97
|-

|Action démocratique

Action démocratique du Québec

The Action démocratique du Québec, commonly referred to as the ADQ is a centre-right political party in Quebec, Canada. On the sovereignty question, it defines itself as autonomist, and has support from both soft nationalists and federalists....

|Karine Simard
|align="right"|3,889
|align="right"|11.99
|align="right"|-19.81
|-

|Québec solidaire

Québec Solidaire

Québec solidaire is a democratic socialist and sovereigntist political party in Quebec, Canada, that was created on 4 February 2006 in Montreal. It was formed by the merger of the left-wing party Union des forces progressistes and the alter-globalization political movement Option Citoyenne, led...

|Manon Blanchard
|align="right"|1,374
|align="right"|4.24
|align="right"|-0.49
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|Green

Green Party of Quebec

The Parti vert du Québec/Green Party of Quebec or PVQ is a Quebec political party whose platform is the promotion of green values. It has not elected any members to the National Assembly of Quebec...

|Simon Bernier
|align="right"|1,094
|align="right"|3.37
|align="right"|-1.62
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|Parti independantiste

Parti indépendantiste

The Parti indépendantiste was a provincial party which advocated Quebec sovereignty in Québec, Canada in the second half of the 1980s.-Denis Monière:...

|Éric Tremblay
|align="right"|349
|align="right"|1.08
|align="right"|-
|}
|-

|Parti Québécois

Parti Québécois

|Marie Malavoy
|align="right"|14,040
|align="right"|35.47
|align="right"|-8.11
|-

|Action démocratique

Action démocratique du Québec

|Karine Simard
|align="right"|12,588
|align="right"|31.80
|align="right"|+18.33
|-

|Liberal
|Anne Pâquet
|align="right"|9,104
|align="right"|23.00
|align="right"|-8.29
|-

|Green

Green Party of Quebec

|Jonathan Mortreux
|align="right"|1,977
|align="right"|4.99
|align="right"|+1.97
|-

|Québec solidaire

Québec Solidaire

|Manon Blanchard
|align="right"|1,873
|align="right"|4.73
|align="right"|-2.47
|}
|-

|Parti Québécois

Parti Québécois

|Marie Malavoy
|align="right"|8,309
|align="right"|43.58
|align="right"|-2.19
|-

|Liberal
|Véronique Mercier
|align="right"|5,966
|align="right"|31.29
|align="right"|-2.88
|-

|Action démocratique

Action démocratique du Québec

|Karine Simard
|align="right"|2,569
|align="right"|13.47
|align="right"|-3.13
|-

|Québec solidaire

Québec Solidaire

|Manon Blanchard
|align="right"|1,373
|align="right"|7.20
|align="right"|+5.77*
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|Green

Green Party of Quebec

|Yvon Rudolphe
|align="right"|575
|align="right"|3.02
|align="right"|-
|-

|Independent

Independent (politician)

In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...

|Tristan Dénommée Pigeon
|align="right"|143
|align="right"|0.75
|align="right"|-
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|Bloc pot

Bloc pot

The Bloc Pot is a provincial political party in Quebec, Canada that is dedicated to ending cannabis prohibition. It has contested three provincial elections but it has failed to win any seats in the National Assembly of Quebec. The party was launched in 1997 by Marc-Boris St-Maurice as a way to...

|Francis Beuzart
|align="right"|133
|align="right"|0.70
|align="right"|-0.78
|}
* Increase is from UFP
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|Parti Québécois

Parti Québécois

|Pauline Marois

Pauline Marois

Pauline Marois is the current leader of the Parti Québécois in the province of Quebec, since June 27, 2007 and current Leader of the Official Opposition of the National Assembly of Quebec, representing the riding of Charlevoix...

|align="right"|21,154
|align="right"|53.02
|align="right"|-7.97
|-

|Liberal
|Nicole Bourget Laramée
|align="right"|12,372
|align="right"|31.01
|align="right"|-3.84
|-

|Action démocratique

Action démocratique du Québec

|Manon Bezeau
|align="right"|5,877
|align="right"|14.73
|align="right"|-
|-

|Socialist Democracy

Parti de la démocratie socialiste

The Parti de la Democratie Socialiste was a political party in Quebec, Canada.The early origins of the PDS can be traced back to the Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif , later renamed Parti social démocratique du Québec...

|Pascal Durand
|align="right"|345
|align="right"|0.86
|align="right"|-
|-

|Innovator
|Monique Murray
|align="right"|147
|align="right"|0.37
|align="right"|-
|}

1995 Quebec referendum 1995 Quebec referendum The 1995 Quebec referendum was the second referendum to ask voters in the Canadian province of Quebec whether Quebec should secede from Canada and become an independent state, through the question:...
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	28,604	60.91
	Non	18,360	39.09

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|Parti Québécois

Parti Québécois

|Pauline Marois

Pauline Marois

|align="right"|23,315
|align="right"|60.99
|align="right"|+5.07
|-

|Liberal
|Philippe Angers
|align="right"|13,321
|align="right"|34.85
|align="right"|-2.15
|-

|Natural Law
|René-William Roy
|align="right"|844
|align="right"|2.21
|align="right"|-
|-

|Sovereignty
|Réal Pineault
|align="right"|746
|align="right"|1.95
|align="right"|-
|}
|-

|Parti Québécois

Parti Québécois

|Pauline Marois

Pauline Marois

|align="right"|18,983
|align="right"|55.92
|align="right"|+5.44
|-

|Liberal
|Rodrigue Dubé
|align="right"|12,562
|align="right"|37.00
|align="right"|-6.94
|-

|Green

Green Party of Quebec

|Richard Briggs
|align="right"|1,362
|align="right"|4.01
|align="right"|-
|-

|New Democrat
|Marc Vachon
|align="right"|508
|align="right"|1.50
|align="right"|-1.14
|-

|Workers

Parti des travailleurs du Québec

The Parti des travailleurs du Québec was a political party in the Canadian province of Quebec. It issued its first manifesto in 1976 and fielded candidates until the 1990s, never rising above fringe status...

|Marie-Claire Ferland
|align="right"|302
|align="right"|0.89
|align="right"|-
|-

|Parti indépendantiste
|Erich Laforest
|align="right"|232
|align="right"|0.68
|align="right"|-0.71
|}
|-

|Parti Québécois

Parti Québécois

|Claude Filion
|align="right"|15,154
|align="right"|50.48
|align="right"|-17.11
|-

|Liberal
|Ginette Desjardins Olivier
|align="right"|13,191
|align="right"|43.94
|align="right"|+14.12
|-

|New Democrat
|Jean-Serge Baribeau
|align="right"|791
|align="right"|2.64
|align="right"|-
|-

|Parti indépendantiste
|Michel Milette
|align="right"|418
|align="right"|1.39
|align="right"|-
|-

| Union Nationale
|Jean-Paul Paré
|align="right"|285
|align="right"|0.95
|align="right"|-0.99
|-

|Christian Socialist

Parti du socialisme chrétien

The Parti du socialisme chrétien was a fringe political party in the Canadian province of Quebec. It fielded 103 candidates in the 1985 Quebec general election....

|François Séguin
|align="right"|91
|align="right"|0.30
|align="right"|-
|-

|United Social Credit

Ralliement créditiste du Québec

The Ralliement créditiste du Québec was a provincial political party in Quebec, Canada that operated from 1970 to 1978. It promoted social credit theories of monetary reform, and acted as an outlet for the expression of rural...

|Michel Bilodeau
|align="right"|91
|align="right"|0.30
|align="right"|+0.19
|}
|-

|Parti Québécois

Parti Québécois

|René Lévesque

René Lévesque

René Lévesque was a reporter, a minister of the government of Quebec, , the founder of the Parti Québécois political party and the 23rd Premier of Quebec...

|align="right"|21,535
|align="right"|67.59
|align="right"|+4.94
|-

|Liberal
|Lawrence R. Wilson
|align="right"|9,500
|align="right"|29.82
|align="right"|+8.22
|-

|Union Nationale
|Luc Gadoury
|align="right"|619
|align="right"|1.94
|align="right"|-9.43
|-

|Independent

Independent (politician)

|Pierre Arnault
|align="right"|69
|align="right"|0.22
|align="right"|-
|-

|Workers Communist
|Suzanne Ouellet
|align="right"|68
|align="right"|0.21
|align="right"|-
|-

|United Social Credit

Ralliement créditiste du Québec

|Gaétan Bernard
|align="right"|36
|align="right"|0.11
|align="right"|-3.80
|-

|Marxist-Leninist

Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec

The Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec or PMLQ is a Quebec communist political party. Its orientation is Marxism-Leninism. The PMLQ is the Quebec branch of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada...

|Yves Boyer
|align="right"|36
|align="right"|0.11
|align="right"|-
|}

1980 Quebec referendum 1980 Quebec referendum The 1980 Quebec referendum was the first referendum in Quebec on the place of Quebec within Canada and whether Quebec should pursue a path toward sovereignty. The referendum was called by Quebec's Parti Québécois government, which strongly favoured secession from Canada...
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	31,997	50.99
	Non	30,752	49.01

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|Parti Québécois

Parti Québécois

|René Lévesque

René Lévesque

René Lévesque was a reporter, a minister of the government of Quebec, , the founder of the Parti Québécois political party and the 23rd Premier of Quebec...

|align="right"|34,098
|align="right"|62.65
|align="right"|+17.45
|-

|Liberal
|Fernand Blanchard
|align="right"|11,753
|align="right"|21.60
|align="right"|-25.06
|-

|Union Nationale
|John E. de Souza
|align="right"|6,189
|align="right"|11.37
|align="right"|+9.97
|-

|Ralliement créditiste

Ralliement créditiste du Québec

|Henri Bourassa
|align="right"|2,129
|align="right"|3.91
|align="right"|-2.57
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|New Democrat
|Jacques Beaudoin
|align="right"|256
|align="right"|0.47
|align="right"|-
|}
|-

|Liberal
|Guy Leduc
|align="right"|18,346
|align="right"|46.66
|align="right"|+4.03
|-

|Parti Québécois

Parti Québécois

|Guy Bisaillon
|align="right"|17,769
|align="right"|45.20
|align="right"|+16.42
|-

|Parti créditiste

Ralliement créditiste du Québec

|Bernard-E. Laplante
|align="right"|2,546
|align="right"|6.48
|align="right"|-0.82
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|Union Nationale
|Marcel Marcoux
|align="right"|550
|align="right"|1.40
|align="right"|-11.51
|-

|Independent

Independent (politician)

|Jean-Paul Paré
|align="right"|103
|align="right"|0.26
|align="right"|-
|}
|-

|Liberal
|Guy Leduc
|align="right"|16,501
|align="right"|42.63
|align="right"|+4.02
|-

|Parti Québécois

Parti Québécois

|Jacques-Yvon Lefebvre
|align="right"|11,138
|align="right"|28.78
|align="right"|-
|-

|Union Nationale
|Jacques Johnson
|align="right"|4,997
|align="right"|12.91
|align="right"|-24.76
|-

|Independent

Independent (politician)

|Serge Mongeau
|align="right"|2,998
|align="right"|7.75
|align="right"|-
|-

|Ralliement créditiste

Ralliement créditiste du Québec

|Jean-P. Bernier
|align="right"|2,826
|align="right"|7.30
|align="right"|-
|-

|Independent

Independent (politician)

|Gaston Gobeil
|align="right"|134
|align="right"|0.35
|align="right"|-
|-

|Independent

Independent (politician)

|Robert Meunier
|align="right"|113
|align="right"|0.29
|align="right"|-
|}
|-

|Liberal
|Guy Leduc
|align="right"|8,627
|align="right"|38.61
|-

|Union Nationale
|Paul-Émile Labrosse
|align="right"|8,417
|align="right"|37.67
|-

|RIN

Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale

The Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale was a political organization dedicated to the promotion of Quebec national independence from Canada.-History:...

|Jacques Ferron
|align="right"|4,097
|align="right"|18.34
|-

|Ralliement national

Ralliement national

Ralliement national was a political party that advocated the political independence of Quebec from Canada in the 1960s.It was led by former créditiste Gilles Grégoire...

|Robert Tremblay
|align="right"|685
|align="right"|3.07
|-

|Independent

Independent (politician)

|Gaston Prévost
|align="right"|517
|align="right"|2.31
|}

Neighbouring electoral districts

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